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Below you can find information and city facts about Salt Lake City, Utah.  This information is provided by Marty and Laurie Gale, Salt Lake City Experts! This is the city guide to Salt Lake City real estate for Salt Lake County in Utah. Find nightlife, housing, transportation, community and recreation information.
 

  Salt Lake City Community

The greater Salt Lake City vicinity  is a major metropolitan area complete with first class amenities such as fine dining, noted attractions, historic sites, and excellent shopping that also maintains an unspoiled small town friendliness with family-friendly neighborhoods. Salt Lake City's median income is $35,138.

The Great Salt Lake, seventeen miles west of the city, is a huge salt water lake, 48 miles wide by 90 miles long and only 45 feet deep and twice as salty as the worlds oceans. Salt Lake City Real Estate services offered by Marty & Laurie Gale is excellent.

  Salt Lake City Lifestyle

From downhill skiing to the area's burgeoning high-tech computer industry, Salt Lake City is a vibrant community, bursting with prosperity. Salt Lake City's productive working environment, low unemployment, exceptional recreational opportunities and high quality of life are just some of the many reasons the Salt Lake valley is considered to be one of the finest areas in the country for clean, safe and comfortable living and one of the best places to buy your next home.

Homeowners here enjoy such regional culinary favorites as the casual family restaurants, or fresh pasta and seafood in a more intimate setting or a delightful ethnic alternative like Vietnamese or Afghan.

  Salt Lake City Housing

Salt Lake City has been recognized time and again as one of the best place in the nation to own a home.

  • Salt Lake City was one of the top 25 "Wired Cities" in America in Yahoo! Magazine.

  • Entrepreneur Magazine ranked Salt Lake City "the second best large city for business location".

  • Adweek Magazine said that Salt Lake city is "poised to become a city of the future".

  • Newswatch rated Salt Lake City as the number one city for the best business environment.

  • The Salt Lake City/Ogden area was ranked as the best place to live in North America in Places Rated Almanac.

  • Fortune magazine listed Salt Lake City the third best city in America for business.

Salt Lake City offers Homes, lots, acreage, Cabins, mountain or commercial property is available.

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  Salt Lake City Culture

Salt Lake City is a thriving cultural center. The first State Arts Council in the United states of America was organized in Utah in 1899. Salt Lake City residents have been enthusiastic about the arts ever since. Theaters have been built as quickly as churches over the years. Salt Lake City is perfect for home buyers with a taste for the performing arts and fine art museums.

The wide range of choices includes the following:

  • Numerous theater groups.

  • Fifteen art galleries are within minutes of downtown.

  • The Museum of Natural History.

  • Repertory Dance Theatre.

  • The Utah State Historical Society.

  • The Utah Museum of the Fine Arts.

  • The Utah Opera Company.

  • The Utah Symphony (12th largest in the U.S.).

  • Ballet West.

  • Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.

  • The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Other Salt Lake City attractions include:

  • The Utah Jazz - NBA basketball

  • Antelope Island

  • The Utah Grizzlies, IHL Hockey

  • Great Salt Lake

  • This is the Place, Monument and State Park

  • The Salt Lake Buzz, Triple A baseball

  • Historic Temple Square

  • The Beehive House

  • ZCMI Center Mall and Crossroads Plaza, (two of the largest indoor shopping malls in the country).

  • Trolley Square, (a restored historic trolley station turned shopping mall).

  • The Bingham Copper Mine (world's largest open pit mine)

  • The Utah State Capitol Building

  • Red Butte Garden and Arboretum

  • Ten national parks within a day's drive.

  Salt Lake City Recreation

Truly Nature's playground, Salt Lake is the perfect base for countless adventures. Utah is the home of the U.S. Ski Team.

Salt Lake City's ten world-class ski resorts including Alta, Brighton, Snowbird, and Solitude, three cross country ski areas and the nation's only recreational ski jumping complex boasting Utah's Trade Mark slogan "Greatest Snow on Earth", are less than an hour's drive from downtown. Snowmobile touring

Hikers, cyclists, rock climbers and picnickers can be seen Salt Lake canyons during the warm summer months. Other homeowners enjoy fly-fishing, golfing, hot air ballooning or a cruising the continent's saltiest lake.  Utah's canyons and mountains are natures play ground for hikers, cyclists, rock climbers, picnickers and campers during the spring and summer months.

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  Salt Lake City Education

The Salt Lake City School District, sixth largest in the state, operates 27 elementary, 6 middle and 4 high schools.

The University of Utah, the largest research and teaching university in the state is also nationally known and respected for medical and law schools.

Salt Lake City offers excellent vocational and two-year institutions and private schools such as:

  • Salt Lake Community College.

  • LDS Business College.

  • The University of Phoenix's Salt Lake City campus.

  • Westminster College, one of the most prestigious private colleges in the the United States of America.

  Salt Lake City Climate

Salt Lake's daily sunshine, low humidity (normally 15% or less) and refreshing mountain breezes make outdoor recreation more comfortable throughout the year. Salt Lake City has four distinct seasons. The surrounding mountains are natural climate modifiers, The low humidity also makes for a dry, powdery snow that has been given the epithet "greatest snow on earth."

The weather in Salt Lake City is enjoyable. skies clear 34% of the time, partly cloudy 28% and cloudy 38% with an average annual rainfall of 15.7 inches, snowfall of 64 and average temperatures are 36.4 degrees F in the winter and 92.2 degrees in the summer.

  Salt Lake City History
The Salt Lake Valley was settled in 1847 by Mormon pioneers (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) after an arduous trip by covered wagon through rough terrain. Brigham Young, their leader, spotted the valley and spoke the now famous words, "This is the place!" The area was a desert and barren, plagued with crickets.  Three years later, they founded the University of Deseret which is now known as the University of Utah and the Salt Lake City area blossomed under Young's leadership.

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Free Market Evaluation  Salt Lake City - What is my home Worth? 48 Email Turn around on most Market Evaluations, Good in the State Of Utah. House Value.

Salt Lake City Relocation Info - Relocating to Salt Lake This link will provide Housing tips, school information, demographics, Hotels, Restaurants, Housing for sale. 

Search For Properties in Salt Lake City - All Surrounding Cities in the Salt Lake Metro Area, including the following Counties: Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Tooele, Weber.

Realtor in Salt Lake City - Re/Max Metro Realtor with 20 years experience in servicing the Salt Lake City, Park City areas. Home Buyer and Home Seller Information. Statewide Relocation information for relocating to Utah.

Free List of Homes in Salt Lake City - Online list of homes with prices and addresses. Hassle free Buyers Agent services. List E-mailed to you Directly. 1000's of homes for sale.

All about Salt Lake City - Links to area demographics, government, restaurants, lodging, schools and universities. On-line relocation information about Salt Lake City Utah.

Home Buyer Seminar - On-line interactive home buying seminar. Learn what to do the save thousands on your home. Learn financing techniques to lower you monthly payments. Learn how to by a home with no down payment. Grants for first time home buyers.  Order a free cd-rom to keep and watch off line.

Home Seller Seminar - On-line interactive home selling seminar. Free cd-rom for available and mailed to you!  Learn what it takes to properly market your property. Sell your home fast and at top dollar. Expired listing ? Find out why your home did not sell. Hints for Sellers including: Painting, staging, interior and exterior fix up tips.

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Real Estate Agents For Salt Lake City, Utah and the Surrounding Metro areas.

We service a large geographical area: Salt Lake County, Tooele County, Davis County, Summit County, Utah.

 

The Cities we Service are: Salt Lake City, Murray, West Jordan South Jordan, Herriman, Bluffdale, Midvale, Riverton, Magna, Copperton, Holladay, Cottonwood, Alta, North Salt Lake, South Salt Lake, West Valley City, Taylorsville, Bennion, Kearns, Bountiful, Farmington, Woods Cross, Saratoga Springs, Lehi,  Draper, Sandy, Park City, Snyderville, Wanship, Summit Park. This is mostly the area called the Greater Wasatch Front.

 

Whether you are a first time home buyer looking at houses on weekends or an experienced investor seeking that right property to add to your investment properties portfolio, you will find useful information about how to choose the "right" home, condo, townhouse, or other property, making an offer, negotiating, financing, mortgage rates, moving, and everything involved in making an informed real estate decision in today´s market. You can even search the Salt Lake area multiple listing service to find properties for sale by all Salt Lake City Realtors as well as listings from other Utah Realtors throughout Utah.

 

As a seller, you will find useful information about pricing any Salt Lake real estate property, how to make your property stand out amongst the competition of other homes for sale and information about Utah real estate in general.

 

New to Utah and need some advice on schools, neighborhoods, and prices, this site can be your relocation specialist. Moving away from the area, the same kind of information is available on most locations throughout the United States.

 

Please feel free to browse through this site to explore the Salt Lake County communities of Murray, Holladay, Sandy, West Jordan, Riverton, Draper, Midvale, West Valley City, anywhere in Salt Lake County. This comprehensive online tool offers direct access to the latest Salt Lake City properties for sale in your area. Featuring extensive Salt Lake City area community information, consumer links, school information, free reports, answers to commonly asked real estate questions, and more, you´ll find everything about real estate within one easy source. Even though we are specializing in the Salt Lake City Area Real Estate, we work with Realtors statewide to help and service home buyers and sellers.

 

Again, if you currently own property and are thinking of placing it on the market, this Salt Lake City Real Estate site contains information about preparing your home for sale, selecting the right agent, pricing your home appropriately, marketing it effectively, going through the inspection processes, and receiving a timely market evaluation. We want to be your Salt Lake City Real Estate Agent.

 

Living in Salt Lake just got easier with the handy Salt Lake City Real Estate Link to the official Utah State Web Site. Also just click on the Utah State Flag to take you to the same site for time saving online tools to
Renew your Utah State Vehicle License Plates or, for your children, Help With Homework. These are just a couple of the tools and resources you can find on this Salt Lake City Real Estate Web Link to the Official Utah State Web Site. This resource site is a must for the computer savvy family.

 

 

Salt Lake City Real Estate Quick Community Links
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